Epsilon breach leads to more than just phishing
Since the Epsilon breach, the customers of the company’s clients – such as US Bank, JPMorgan Chase, TiVo, Capital One, the Home Shopping Network, LL Bean Visa …
Malware silently hijacks Facebook account and adds apps
Several months ago, when the operators of the Sality P2P botnet pushed out malware that not only collected usernames and passwords and sends them to the C&C servers but …
U.S. authorities hijack botnet by substituting C&C servers
The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have been granted by the federal court the permission to substitute the C&C servers of the massive Coreflood botnet with …
“Request rejected” spam campaign leads to fake AV
A spam email campaign carrying a malicious attachment designed to download and run a fake AV solution on the recipient’s computer is currently hitting inboxes around the …
ESET NOD32 Antivirus for Linux 4 released
ESET announced the availability of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 Business Edition for Linux Desktop and ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux. ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for Linux offers …
Email malware jumps 400% after Rustock takedown
Malware sent via email increased by 400% in the last week of March 2011, Commtouch reported today. The significant increase was detected two weeks after the takedown of the …
Ransom Trojan locks Windows
Ransomware is slowly becoming quite a problem, and the latest one spotted by F-Secure tries a rather innovative approach: it locks the victims out of Windows and doesn’t …
Koobface says goodbye to Facebook
Koobface – the computer worm that targets users of the social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others – has stopped using Facebook to …
Spam about the Jasmine Revolution leads to malware
By the end of 2010, the total number of Chinese Internet users reached 457 million. That means that even if scammers and hackers concentrate exclusively on that particular …
Scammers continue to exploit Japanese disasters
As Japan has been struck again by a high-magnitude earthquake and warnings about a possible tsunami hitting the Japanese islands have been issued, malware peddlers have …
Uptick in rogue Facebook applications
GFI Software announced the top 10 most prevalent malware threats for the month of March 2011. GFI researchers found that the Japanese tsunami, earthquake and subsequent …
Servers breached at Fortune 100 company
The Connecticut-based Hartford Financial Services Group – a Fortune 100 company and one of the largest investment and insurance companies in the US – has suffered …
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